by rmil2k | Oct 24, 2023 | News
Dark-colored regolith from the asteroid Bennu lies scattered around the outside of OSIRIS-REx’s sample collector. Credit: NASA/Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebersold After a journey of seven years and nearly 4 billion miles, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft landed...
by rmil2k | Oct 24, 2023 | News
The ground shakes. Paintings tilt. Walls crack. Rubble may fall. On Earth, we understand how and where these events happen due to the discovery of plate tectonics – the continental crust’s creation, movement, and destruction. However, when astronauts placed...
by rmil2k | Oct 24, 2023 | News
The scene was set: a research base on the Red Planet was struck by a cyberattack and eight teams on Earth had just a matter of hours to save it. Far from being a farfetched scenario, cyberattacks are unfortunately a daily problem for all sectors, including space...
by rmil2k | Oct 24, 2023 | News
Sept. 24 was a big day for NASA, when an orange-and-white capsule containing pieces of an asteroid landed on Earth, charred from its ultrahigh-speed fall through our atmosphere. The asteroid in question, named Bennu, is thought to have been roaming space since the...
by rmil2k | Oct 23, 2023 | News
Back to Article List Join us for a one-of-a kind trip that begins in Santiago, Chile, and features more than five minutes of annularity. Easter Island, home to nearly 1,000 moai statues, will be the prime spot to see on annular solar eclipse on Oct. 2, 2024. Photo:...
